{"id":41453,"date":"2018-06-08T04:48:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=41453"},"modified":"2018-06-08T04:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T11:48:33","slug":"still-not-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/08\/still-not-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Still not ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalms 119:97<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. \u00a0Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. \u00a0I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. \u00a0I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. \u00a0How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a pure song of praise. It contains no single petition, but is just one glad outpouring of the heart.\u201d (Morgan)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The superficial Christian may read and understand and even, in an outward sense, obey the word of God. But only the spiritual man loves it; they live as if they could not live without it. To the superficial Christian it is a duty to satisfy the conscience; to the believer it is food and medicine, light and comfort \u2013 the word of God is life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If one wants to, they can increase their love for God\u2019s word. You can\u2019t make yourself love something or someone; but you can cultivate love towards someone or something.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Give it your time; set it before you constantly.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Give it your attention and care; look after the word of God (it is my meditation all the day).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Give it a truly listening ear.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Give it your honor and your obedience.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Give it your appreciation; value it for all the good it has done for you and be thankful for all that good.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Give it your dependence and trust; let it care for you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Give it your praise; speak highly of it before others.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When we truly love someone, we don\u2019t wish to change them. \u201cYou cannot bend the Bible to your mind; how much better it would be for you to bend your mind to the Bible, and to say, \u2018O how I love thy law, \u2013 the doctrines of it, the precepts of it, the promise of it, the ordinances it enjoins upon me, the warnings it sets before me, the exhortations it gives me!\u2019 Love the whole Bible from the beginning of Genesis to the end of Revelation, and be prepared even to die rather than to give up half a verse of it.\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI beseech you to let your Bibles be everything to you. Carry this matchless treasure with you continually, and read it, and read it, and read it again and again. Turn to its pages by day and by night. Let its narratives mingle with your dreams; let its precepts color your lives; let its promises cheer your darkness, let its divine illumination make glad your life. As you love God, love this Book which is the Book of God, and the God of books, as it has rightly been called.\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe may hear the wisest teachers and remain fools, but if we meditate upon the sacred word we must become wise. There is more wisdom in the testimonies of the Lord than in all the teachings of men if they were all gathered into one vast library. The one book outweighs all the rest.\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Boice tells a story about the life of Harry Ironisde, the pastor and author and Bible commentator. Ironside went to visit a man near death, suffering from tuberculosis. The man was almost dead and could barely speak. As Ironside spoke to him he asked, \u201cYoung man, are you trying to preach Christ, are you not?\u201d Ironside said that he was, and the man replied: \u201cWell, sit down a little, and let us talk together about the Word of God.\u201d Then the man opened his Bible and spoke with Ironside until his strength was gone; he shared insights from the Bible that Ironside had not appreciated or even seen before. Ironside was stunned, and he asked the man: \u201cWhere did you get these things? Can you tell me where I can find a book that will open them up to me? Did you get them in seminary or college?\u201d The old man replied: \u201cMy dear young man, I learned these things on my knees on the mud floor of a little sod cottage in the north of Ireland. There with my open Bible before me, I used to kneel for hours at a time and ask the Spirit of God to reveal Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart. He taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bible is the description of our heavenly inheritance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bible is the instruction manual for wise and blessed living.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bible is a telescope where we see the heavenly city that is our destination.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 3:2\u00a0\u00a0Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly\u2014as infants in Christ.\u00a0I gave you<\/a>\u00a0milk,<\/a>not<\/a>\u00a0solid food,<\/a>\u00a0for<\/a>\u00a0you were not yet ready for solid food.<\/a>\u00a0In fact,<\/a>\u00a0you are still not ready,<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for you are still worldly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalms 119:97\u00a0\u00a0 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. \u00a0Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. \u00a0I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. \u00a0I … Continue reading “Still not ready”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7221,3345,5647,602,7219,7226,164,7225,7223,7228,5181,7222,1154,56,4236,5710,7220,2012,2209,5711,7227,7229,7224,4205,5827,2528,2047,7218,6160],"class_list":["post-41453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-aged","tag-christ","tag-commandment","tag-enemies","tag-ever-with-me","tag-every-false-way","tag-evil","tag-honey-to-my-mouth","tag-how-sweet","tag-infants","tag-keep","tag-keep-you-word","tag-law","tag-love","tag-meditation","tag-milk","tag-more-understanding","tag-precepts","tag-rules","tag-solid-food","tag-spiritual","tag-still-not-ready","tag-taste","tag-taught-me","tag-teachers","tag-testimonies","tag-turn-aside","tag-wiser","tag-worldly"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41454,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41453\/revisions\/41454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}